Thread by @DrSubhasree

Making a case for #VitaminD during #COVID19: This pandemic is affecting obese, diabetics, hypertensives, malnourished & immune suppressants. In India, 82% deaths due to COVID is related to co-morbidities.

VITAMIN D is related to all these.

1. Immunity: intechopen.com/books/vitamin-…

2. Diabetes: One of the major risk factors to contract the virus, severe disease progression & mortality. Prevalence of diabetes in India is ~12% and growing. Vitamin D definiciency is associated with impaired insulin sensitivity & glucose metabolism, i.e. occurrence of diabetes.

3. Obesity: obesity is most common cause of COVID 19 deaths. The prevalence varies from 11.8-31.3%. Vitamin D deficiency causes obesity and if you are obese, you are more prone to be Vitamin D deficient. This is a 2 way relationship. (1/2)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dm…

Obesity on the other hand is the single most important risk factors for other metabolic disorders like diabetes, hypertension, stroke etc. (2/2)

4. Respiratory Health: Attached Infographic provides detailed mechanism on how the Vitamin protects lung.
grassrootshealth.net/blog/vitamin-d…

5. Gut Health: Vitamin D modulates the function of beneficial gut microbiota, thus helps in protecting the gut health.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

The root cause here is largely prevalent Vitamin D definiciency which needs to be addressed now. I request our journalists to speak more on this issue and take the awareness to the common people, Govt. and policymakers.

I request people in my network to retweet this entire thread by tagging their respective State Govt., Health officials etc. A mass screening to be initiated as soon as possible. Simple supplementation with Vitamin D might prevent severity and mortality at significant level.